December 28th, 2007
Spent most of the day working on Foliopress WYSIWYG together with Peter Baran.
Our solution for the Wordpress WYSIWYG and image handling nightmare is coming along quite brilliantly well. This is what the basic toolbar looks like.
Foliopress WYSIWYG toolbar preview
Foliopress WYSIWYG offers true What You See is What You Get Editing for Wordpress.
- It is backwards compatible with legacy code (hello Xstandard/TinyMCE)
- It doesn't break complex forms (hello TinyMCE/Xstandard)
- It doesn't discard whole posts (hello Xstandard)
- It doesn't go haywire and create more and more nested P tags (hello WYSIWYG Pro)
- It doesn't look like hell in the Wordpress interface (hello normal FCK)
- It doesn't make uploading images a never ending and hopeless struggle (hello Wordpress uploader)
- It doesn't make your clients hopping mad and lead them to breaking everything (Plaintext/RAW html)
- Your drafts look like exactly like your posts will, without having to waste time with a preview function (hello Xstandard)
- You have unlimited standard undo from the keyboard (hello Xstandard)
- Very easy to configure (including site WYSIWYG) (hello Xstandard, TinyMCE, FCK)
In short, Foliopress WYSIWYG is what you always wished the Wordpress Editor would do. I'm using it now and can't believe no one created and editor like this earlier.
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alec |
WordPress |
August 22nd, 2007
Here is the history of Foliovision with Mambo and Joomla. Our first major project in a CMS (as opposed to SSI - server side includes) was a Mambo project. Dr. Ian Firla and I built a monumental mortgage site with what seemed like our bare hands.
Making Mambo work as well for SEO as flat html files was a monumental task, but one at which we were ultimately successful. After careful consideration of how slow and unwieldy Mambo became in production, we made the decision to move to Wordpress (at that point at 1.2 with 1.5 coming soon).
As you can see, we haven't looked back.
But developers are strange creatures. Our CIO who encouraged me to move to Wordpress back then- after inheriting the mortgage site - later decided that he would like to learn some new programming languages. He even suggested we switch over to Ruby on Rails.
That's something I said no to. We are so conversant now in Wordpress, why would we want to use something else?
There is nothing we can't do in Wordpress and PHP is a flexible and quick language. Of course we have to keep our own set of built modules ready but at the end of the day it makes more sense to stay with what we know and what we can easily adapt.
Stay expert!
Thank you Mambo and Joomla. And goodbye. We won't forget you.
But life is easier apart.
alec |
WordPress |
April 17th, 2007
Documentation
You can read full documentation for the modern Wordpress version over here: Foliopress Embedded Page Menus.
The original Mambo version was much more limited than the current Wordpress version which basically feeds and washes and walks your dog for you, giving you menus in every nick and cranny of your website with more or less information.
But Mambo didn't need any help structuring a CMS. Mambo Embedded Page Menus were the backbone of the Calum Ross mortgage consulting site, a site which was more or less unchanged from 2004 to 2007, at the core of the Calum Ross Mortage Consulting team, doing millions of dollars of commissions per year.
Embedded Page Menus in Action at CalumRoss.com 1 January 2008
This plugin was tested with Mambo 4.5.1 and probably needs updating to work with current Mambo or Joomla. On the other hand, the plugin is very simple and leverages core Mambo functionality so it shouldn't be much trouble to update.
Installation
Installation is just like any Mambo module:
Download
mod_embeddedmenu.zip
Mambo Embedded Page Menus is a free download, no registration required.
But if you find Mambo Embedded Page Menus useful, please drop by and leave a link to a page of your site with Mambo Embedded Page Menus in action in the comments. Anchor text encouraged!
alec |
WordPress |
